Healing Touch for Sciatic Nerve Pain

Today I went in for my Hospital Volunteer credentials so that I will be allowed to use the Healing Touch procedures I learned. In honor of this occasion I pulled up notes from my HT journal from a few months ago, and found this entry which marked the first time I used these techniques on someone in pain other than my husband:

November 25, 2008

My husband and I were awakened at 5:00 this morning with a call from Rick, who worked for us, and was now crippled in pain at Albertson's parking lot. He had gone to a chiropractor the day before for lower-back adjustments who also recommended that x-rays be taken. Rick postponed the x-rays and worked the graveyard shift transporting newspapers. The jarring pain he felt after a sudden twist was the worst he had ever felt in his life. He barely made it to his car before passing out.

I found him 40 minutes later holding the side of his leg, rocking in agony in the front seat of his car. He could not yet be moved. He said he thought he would need an ambulance. I asked if he believed in natural healing and if he would mind if I tried to help him through his pain for awhile until we determined what to do. We may be able to drive him there if he calmed down and felt stronger. He agreed. I asked if it was ok that I touch him. He nodded. I measured the space above him quickly with my hands and felt that his overall energy was strong. I took quick measurements with my pendulum which revealed his lower back and leg to be spinning off axis, leaning left, counter-clockwise. I put it back in my pocket and pulled out the eye pillow which he accepted.

I put my hand over Rick's sacral center and asked him to focus on his breathing while I tried to move the good energy, emanating from his center, to where it hurt. I moved my left hand over his hand which he was using to grab aggressively on his leg. He yanked his hand away moving lower toward his calf to pull his leg upward. I kept my hand lightly, firmly, gently on his thigh. Soon his rocking lessened and I could feel him easing into my hand. After reminding him to concentrate on his breathing, I released my right hand, and snapped my fingers. I was now free to test the pendulum again and see that, as Carl had promised, it had changed to a strong clockwise direction. I shook my free right hand in a pain drain, and brought it upward to receive more energy, then continued with two-handed modulation of energy, keeping both hands in place until I felt some sort of ease, covering areas from lower back to top of the calf.

After perhaps twenty minutes of this, I asked if he felt well enough to be moved to the back seat. He said he felt much improved, but still wanted to go to Emergency. I helped him into the back seat and drove, telling him along the way that it was his job to remember to breathe fully from his gut and direct white light, with color tips, toward his pain. I kept repeating "Focus on your breath. See the Light. Everything's going to be alright." I apologized for the rhyme.

Fellow HT student Parke was there to help me with admissions at Mercy! After Rick was situated in his room I asked if he wanted more help with the pain. He enthusiastically thanked me and agreed. We continued with modulation mostly. I observed that one hand on the area seemed less effective, he was more squirmish, than if I used two. I would later observe this affect on myself when working on the headache that seemed to result from this exertion.

Rick cried to God for help, so I offered to pray with him, as I continued modulation, pain drain and ultrasound techniques -- now with less effort and more conscious instinct since I had gained experience working on my husband and his broken clavicle the past several days. In the prayers, aloud, I added positive affirmations including thanks for helping us find the energy to ease Rick's pain.

After pain medication was installed and his wife arrived, I waited for my husband to pick me up. The poor guy had been driving around with his arm in a sling, delivering the rest of Rick's route. I felt surprisingly good, for a while, tingling with love and confidence. Later I would learn that I should have used some self Chakra reconnection, instead of basking in the glow. I threw myself out of balance for several hours afterward, to the great disapointment of my family, until I took the time to realign myself and drain the negative energy I had absorbed. I laid on the floor in the living room, feeling like I was coming down with the flu.

Good lesson: Start with a self chakra connection on dry land (2 x for me) and finish with slow loving modulation and a pain drain in the shower. You'll be yourself by the time you're through.